Table 3.
Characteristics of the patients having or not combined outcome event.
| Combined outcome event N = 64 |
No outcome event N = 539 |
p | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Age (mean, years) | 72.4 ± 11.6 | 69.2 ± 12.7 | 0.05 |
| NIHSS on admission (mean) | 13.3 ± 7.1 | 7.9 ± 6.8 | <0.0001 |
| Sex male | 39 (60.9%) | 297 (55.1%) | 0.4 |
| Diabetes Mellitus | 20 (31.2%) | 122 (22.6%) | 0.2 |
| Hypertension | 49 (76.6%) | 380 (70.5%) | 0.3 |
| Hyperlipidemia | 27 (42.2%) | 254 (47.1%) | 0.5 |
| Atrial fibrillation | 38 (59.4%) | 278 (51.6%) | 0.3 |
| History of stroke | 30 (46.9%) | 165 (30.6%) | 0.01 |
| Smoking (ongoing) | 16 (25.0%) | 95 (17.6%) | 0.2 |
| Alcoholism | 8 (12.5%) | 55 (10.2%) | 0.5 |
| Congestive heart failure | 19 (29.7%) | 108 (20.0%) | 0.1 |
| History of myocardial infarction | 16 (25.0%) | 92 (17.1%) | 0.1 |
| Peripheral artery disease | 11 (17.2%) | 51 (9.5%) | 0.07 |
| Pacemaker | 14 (21.9%) | 66 (12.2%) | 0.04 |
| Lesion size | <0.0001 | ||
| Small | 12 (18.8%) | 266 (49.4%) | |
| Medium | 24 (37.5%) | 168 (31.1%) | |
| Large | 28 (43.7%) | 105 (19.5%) | |
| Leukoaraiosis | 38 (59.4%) | 283 (52.5%) | 0.3 |
| Intracardiac thrombus | 6 (9.4%) | 30 (5.6%) | 0.2 |
| rtPA | 10 (15.6%) | 62 (11.5%) | 0.3 |
| rtPA and/or mechanical thrombectomy | 20 (31.2%) | 135 (25.0%) | 0.3 |
| INR⩾2.5 | 18 (28.1%) | 133 (24.7%) | 0.3 |
| Timing of anticoagulant therapy initiation (mean, days) | 5.6 ± 14.5 | 3.2 ± 3.9 | 0.003 |